NEW YORK, July 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM will
offer subscribers the most comprehensive audio coverage available
for The 148th Open, taking place this year at Royal
Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland. SiriusXM listeners
will get access to live play-by-play on each day of the
Championship with more than 45 total hours of live on-course
coverage. Additionally, throughout Open week SiriusXM's talk
programming schedule will include several shows hosted by a
remarkable collection of standout players who have 24 Top-10 Open
finishes among them – Bernhard
Langer, Fred Couples,
Hale Irwin, Craig Stadler, John
Cook and Brad Faxon.
Live Championship play-by-play, featuring The R&A's @TheOpen
Radio broadcasts, will air Thursday through Sunday, July 18-21, on SiriusXM's "The Open Radio"
channel (SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio - Sirius ch. 208, XM ch.
92). The broadcast can be heard on SiriusXM radios and those
with streaming access can listen online, on-the-go with the
SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a wide variety of connected
devices, including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa devices, Apple TV,
PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more. Visit
SiriusXM.com for more info.
Championship broadcasts will begin on SiriusXM on Thursday and
Friday at 2:00 am ET, and on Saturday
and Sunday at 4:00 am ET, and will
continue through the conclusion of each day's play.
"SiriusXM listeners will once again get unparalleled coverage
throughout the week of The Open," said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM's President and Chief
Content Officer. "In addition to so many hours of live
Championship play-by-play, our listeners will be treated to shows
you can't get anywhere else, hosted by some of the game's greats
who have competed in dozens of Open Championships."
Highlights from SiriusXM's talk programming during Open week
will include the following:
- Bernhard Langer, who has
a remarkable seven Top-5 finishes in The Open including two
runner-up performances, will join David
Marr III to host an hour-long special focused on the history
of The Open, golf's original championship. Langer has competed in
two dozen Open Championships, his first in 1980 and his most recent
just last year, when he finished in the Top-25. (Debuts
Wednesday, July 17 at 11:00 pm ET with multiple replays. Also available
On Demand.)
- Fred Couples, with nine
Top-10 finishes in The Open, will host a new live edition of The
Fred Couples Show on Tuesday, July
16 at 3:00 pm ET.
- Pat Perez, who finished
T-17 in last year's Open, hosts a new edition of his show, Out
of Bounds, with Michael Collins
on July 16 at 8:00 pm ET.
- John Cook, who was the
runner-up in The Open in 1982, hosts Connected with John Cook on July
16 at 7:00 pm ET.
- Brad Faxon, who finished
T-7 in 1994, hosts Just the Fax on Monday, July 15 at 4:00 pm
ET.
- Major champions Hale
Irwin, Craig
Stadler and Dave
Stockton will each co-host an episode of the post-round
show airing after the conclusion of play on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, alongside Taylor Zarzour
and Carl Paulson.
- SiriusXM listeners will hear shows hosted by current and former
PGA TOUR pros Colt Knost,
Mark Lye, John Maginnes, Carl Paulson and Dennis Paulson; as well as noted instructors
and coaches Michael Breed,
Conrad Ray, Frank Darby, Brian Crowell, Trey Jones and others.
For a full schedule of SiriusXM's programming visit:
SiriusXM.com/GolfonSXM.
NBC Sports Group owns the rights to The Open broadcasts in the
U.S. NBC Sports will provide exclusive television and
streaming coverage of The Open from Royal Portrush on NBC and Golf
Channel.
About SiriusXM
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is the world's largest
audio entertainment company, and the premier programmer and
platform for subscription- and advertising-supported audio
products. With the recent addition of Pandora, the largest
streaming music provider in the U.S., SiriusXM reaches more than
100 million people with its audio products. For more about the new
SiriusXM, please go to: siriusxm.com.
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